Events
Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
Events this month
24 January. Humboldt Field Research Institute and Eagle Hill Foundation, United States
Seminar: Lichens, Biofilms, and Gravestones, 8-14 July 2012, Steuben, Maine, United States
Registration deadline: contact organizers
19 January. Economic Value of Cultural Heritage (EVoCH European Project)
Seminar: "Cultural Tourism - Macro-economic Effects for Cities and Regions"
, 16-17 February 2012, Vienna, Austria
Registration deadline: 8 February 2012
19 January. National Museum of Denmark
Call for abstracts : "Conservation in the Nineteenth Century" (CiNC), 13-16 May 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2012
19 January. ICOM-CC Leather and Related Materials Working Group
Call for abstracts : 10th Interim Meeting, 29-31 August 2012, Offenbach, Germany
Submission deadline for abstracts: 16 March 2012
19 January. Yildiz Technical University and ICOMOS-ICORP (International Committee on Risk Preparedness)
Call for abstracts : Cultural Heritage Protection in Times of Risk: Challenges and Opportunities, 15-17 November 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
Submission deadline for abstracts: 20 March 2012
18 January. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation (PAC)
Call for papers: Storage and Repositories: New Preservation and Access strategies (IFLA 2012 Congress: IFLA-PAC Open Session), 11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland
Submission deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2012
4 January. Building Technology Programme - Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
Conference: Wood in the 21st Century: Design and Preservation of Contemporary & Historic Architecture, 24-26 March 2012, Cambridge, MA, United States
Registration deadline: see website
20 December. ICOM-DEMHIS and ICOM-CC
Call for papers: Multidisciplinary Conservation in Historic House Museums, 6-9 November 2012, Los Angeles, United States
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2012
20 December. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Event: Modern and Contemporary Mural Paintings: technique, conservation and access, 4-5 May 2012, Valencia, Spain
Registration deadline: see website
20 December. ICOM-CC
Working Group Sculpture, Polychromy, and Architectural Decorations
Symposium: Polychrome Sculpture: Artistic Tradition and Construction Techniques, 13-14 April 2012, Glasgow, Scotland
Registration deadline: 10 April 2012
12 December. Université de Savoie, France, and partners
Call for papers: International Conference on Surface Metrology, 21-23 March 2012, Annecy, France
Submission deadline for abstracts: see website
12 December. Metropolitan Museum of Art; Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts of New York University; Winterthur Museum; Cornell University; and Brookhaven National Laboratory
Conference: Synchrotron Radiation in Art and Archaeology, 5-8 June 2012, New York, United States
Registration deadline: 1 June 2012
12 December. University of Florence,
Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies (CAMNES), and General Association of Mediterranean Archaeology (GAMA)
Event: 16th SOMA - Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, 1 – 3 March 2012, Florence, Italy
Registration deadline: 12 February 2012
5 December. International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) and the Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa
Conference: 49th IFLA World Congress, 5 – 7 September 2012, Cape Town, South Africa
Submission deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2012
Registration deadline: see website
21 November. Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation - Life Beyond Tourism, Florence, Italy
Conference: Domes in the World, 19 – 23 March 2012, Florence, Italy
Registration deadline: 29 February 2012
21 October. Docomomo, Finland
Conference: 12th International Docomomo Conference: the survival of modern - from coffee cup to plan, 7-10 August, Helsinki, Finland
Registration deadline: 31 May 2012 (early registration)
21 October. International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
Conference: IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2012, 11 – 13 April 2012, Paris, France
Registration deadline: contact organizers
21 October. University of Barcelona, Spain
Event: 10th Biennial International Conference of the Infrared and Raman Users' Group (IRUG), 28-31 March, Barcelona, Spain
Registration deadline: 25 January 2012 (early registration)
Grants, scholarships, internships, funding, volunteers
19 January. Rathgen Research Laboratory, National Museums in Berlin, Germany
Rathgen Heritage Science Scholarship 2012
Applications deadline: 12 February 2012
19 January. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, United States
Post-Graduate Fellowship in Conservation of Photographs
Applications deadline: 13 February 2012
4 January. National Gallery of Art, United States
21 October. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Research Fellowships in the Humanities
Applications deadline: 1 February 2012
21 October. Clothworker's Foundation, United Kingdom
Conservation fellowship
Applications deadline: 2 March 2012
21 October. Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC), United States
Grants and Scholarships
Applications deadline: see website
Jobs
30 January. Global Heritage Fund, United States
Chief Conservation Officer
Application deadline: 28 March 2012
30 January. Arterial Network, South Africa
Secretary General
Manager: Sustainability
Application deadline: 10 February 2012
30 January. Buffalo State University, United States
Andrew W. Mellon Residency in Conservation Education
Application deadline: 30 March 2012
18 January. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, United States
Andrew W. Mellon Residency in Conservation Education
Application deadline: 1 March 2012
Publications, e-publications, e-journals
19 January. IFLA Newsletter No.97, International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
18 January. Call for papers: CeROArt Electronic Journal, France
Issue 8 of CeROArt, which will appear next autumn 2012, will be dedicated to the dossier: “Politics of conservation-restoration”, with emphasis on the generic dimension of the term.
Submission deadline for articles: 15 July 2012
18 January. Bulletin de l'ISPAN 30, Haiti
18 January. The Guggenheim Archives, 65 art catalogues available online, all free of charge.
Survey
18 January. Pollution monitoring survey, Centre for Sustainable Heritage, University College London, United Kingdom
The purpose of this survey is to better understand the issues related to pollution monitoring at heritage sites. Are air pollution levels monitored? Why not? What are the pollutants of interest? These are some of the questions which should improve our understanding of issues related to air pollution monitoring at heritage sites around the world. Such understanding would help develop more suitable monitoring systems.
Training and development
19 January. 20|21 Conservation and Restoration of Contemporary Art, Portugal
Course: 7th Masterclass 20|21 – Digital Prints: Identification and Preservation, 29 February - 3 March 2012, Porto, Portugal
Application deadline: 22 February 2012
18 January. Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI), Switzerland
Training: Master of Arts in Conservazione e restauro, September 2012, Lugano, Switzerland
Application deadline: 30 June 2012
4 January. Preservation Advisory Centre, British Library, United Kingdom
Courses, workshops and events
Registration deadline: see website
20 December. Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI), Switzerland
Training: Bachelor of Arts SUPSI in Conservazione, Fall 2012, Lugano, Switzerland
Application deadline: 31 July 2012
12 December. European Research Centre, Horn, Austria
Course: Identification of Asian Paper – you only see what you know, 10-14 June 2012, Horn, Austria
Application deadline: contact organizers
12 December. European Research Centre, Horn, Austria
Course: Identification of European Paper – you only see what you know, 4-8 June 2012, Horn, Austria
Application deadline: contact organizers
5 December. University of Kent, United Kindom and the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece
Course: MA in Heritage Management, September 2012, Eleusis, Greece
Application deadline: 15 July 2012
20 September. Preservation Advisory Centre, British Library, United Kingdom
Training Calendar
Application deadline: see website
15 April. Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Course: MSt in Historic Environment, September 2012 to July 2014, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Application deadline: applications will be accepted from 1 September 2011 to 30 March 2012
Websites, online databases
31 January. Paper Through Time
This website shares the results of research on 1,578 paper specimens made between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
19 January. Archive | The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
The Martin Luther King digital archive is now open to the public. Through these papers we see the United States of America at one of its most vulnerable, most honest and perhaps most human moments in history.
19 January. Liberia '77
Imagine life without photos. No smiling faces. No family snapshots. No record of your past. Liberia ’77 is now gathering images from pre-war Liberia to return to the National Museum in Monrovia. Help them restore the photographic history of a nation.
19 January. Penn Museum Collections Database
The Penn Museum Online Collections Database is designed as a utility for scholars to obtain preliminary information on artifacts for research purposes, and for teachers and students to explore a region’s cultural materials.
19 January. African World Heritage Sites
Aimed at raising awareness of this continent’s most precious places -
and the conservation challenges they face – by providing maps, information
and a slideshow of each site.
18 January. Open Culture
"The best free cultural & educational media on the web"
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